Beate Kutschke & Barley Norton 
Music and Protest in 1968 [PDF ebook] 

DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing & Scratching is the most comprehensive, up to date approach to DJing ever produced. With insights from top club, mobile, and scratch DJs, the book includes ma …

The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-”l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first …

What do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about …

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars wh …

Originally published in 1948 and updated with a new introduction in 1970 this book is a classic study on the musical life of a Bantu people in Mozambique. It discusses the poetry on which the music a …

Legendary musician Peter Hook tells the whole story – the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy – of Manchester”s most iconic nightclub Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New …

This book is the inaugural volume a series entitled Polymeric Foams: Technology and Applications. Generally, thermoplastic and thermoset foams have been treated as two separate practices in industry. …

Movie soundtrack music is big business. In both film studios and at major record labels, entire divisions focus exclusively on marketing movie music. Film composers like John Williams have become int …

"Chopin: the Man and His Music" by James Huneker is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life and musical genius of the renowned composer Frederic Chopin. Huneker’s book serves as …

In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of h …